Gov't hype surrounds "Operation Buckshot Yankee"

2010-08-26 06:30

http://vmyths.com/2010/08/26/oby/ By Rob Rosenberger Vmyths.com Aug 26, 2010 Let's cut to the chase. U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III wrote an op-ed for a commercial publication in which he claims a single USB thumb drive caused the worst military data breach in history. And according to Wikipedia, that one little USB stick led to the creation of the Pentagon's new Cyber Command. Breathless reports like this one say this single specific tiny little USB thumb drive got infected with agent.btz, a tiny little chunk of malware the antivirus world has known about since, what, 2008? Yet it took at least 14 months for the Pentagon to clean it up. Come on, people -- fourteen months?!? The antivirus experts dismiss agent.btz as banal, not brilliant. I'll bet it took so long only because it was a classified operation. This malware would have blown over in a week if DoD-CERT had issued an email saying "hey, there's a new virus running around, please scan your PCs for agent.btz." [...] _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isn

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